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New look like a Corolla at the back (Cocaine is a helluva drug thread)

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Old 10-23-05, 06:28 PM
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Default New look like a Corolla at the back (Cocaine is a helluva drug thread)

I went to the mall and saw an IS250 AWD in smoky granite mica, and the rear look very much like my Corolla.

How come Lexus made it look like a regular car at the back and its not very "Lexus" at the rear?
Old 10-23-05, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by LTune
I went to the mall and saw an IS250 AWD in smoky granite mica, and the rear look very much like my Corolla.

How come Lexus made it look like a regular car at the back and its not very "Lexus" at the rear?
Perhaps because Chief Engineer Fukusato was involved in the design of the latest generation Corolla. The rear of the New IS looks NOTHING like a Corolla IMHO.
Old 10-23-05, 07:24 PM
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I saw the new IS personally, the rear end looks nothing like the Corolla at all.
Old 10-23-05, 07:29 PM
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Come on it looks nothing like the Corolla. If anything it looks like the new GS like its suppose to. Thats what lexus is trying to do. make the IS and GS more alike.
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having a corolla in the household and seeing a new IS just the other day next to it, i really don't find the resemblance, actually i think from all the cars out there the one that looks more like it would be the new jetta <or even the es330 with the round blinkers look like a stretched out corolla>
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well atleast on my opinion considering its small size it looks like a Corolla afar except for the dual exhaust.
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Originally Posted by LTune
I went to the mall and saw an IS250 AWD in smoky granite mica, and the rear look very much like my Corolla.

How come Lexus made it look like a regular car at the back and its not very "Lexus" at the rear?
I am not even going to totally go there but here are 2 pics to explain to others
"Do not do drugs"





Not to mention, the IS TAILIGHTS STRUT AWAY FROM THE BODY, to help with aerodynamics.
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Originally Posted by 1SICKLEX
I am not even going to totally go there but here are 2 pics to explain to others
"Do not do drugs"





Not to mention, the IS TAILIGHTS STRUT AWAY FROM THE BODY, to help with aerodynamics.

LOL Thank you for that. " Cocaine's a hell of a drug"
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i dont see the ressemblance.
Old 10-23-05, 09:46 PM
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yea the IS looks much better
Old 10-23-05, 10:20 PM
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LMAO you changed the title. All Lexus and Toyota's have that "family look" resemblance, but no way would I confuse a Corolla with a IS, not even in the dark.
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The Corolla and the new Jetta, I could see that. Not the IS though.
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the 2007 LS looks like a blown-up verison of the IS (no, I don't mean exploded).
http://www.caranddriver.com/article....ticle_id=10141
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Default Hyundai Sonata

It looks close to Hyundai Sonata
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No Way do they look the same.


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